Lord Capulet
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Lord Capulet, in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is a loving, but controlling father. Lord Capulet is the head of his family and father to Juliet Capulet. He is sometimes interfering, commanding, and controlling, but at the same time he can be courteous and generous, as he appears at his party. He sometimes let jealousy get in the way. When Tybalt tries to incite a duel with Romeo, while at the party, Capulet tries to calm him and then threatens to disinherit him if he does not control his temper.
Capulet dearly loves his daughter, Juliet, but believes he knows what is best for her. He says that his consent to the marriage depends upon what she wants and tells Paris that if he wants to marry her he should wait a while then ask her. Later however, when Juliet is grieving over Tybalt's death, he entirely forgets about her feelings and forces her to be married to Count Paris. When she refuses to marry Paris, he becomes angry, threatening to turn her out on the street and to disinherit her and insults her. He fixes the day of the marriage for Thursday and suddenly advances it to Wednesday. He is highly insensitive to the feelings of Juliet up to this point. All this changes, however, when he sees her unconscious on her bed, presumed to be dead, and later when she really died during the play's final scene.
